DEVELOPING OF BIOLOGY LEARNING BOOK WITH LOCAL POTENTIAL OF LIVING THING DIVERSITY TOPIC FOR SMP STUDENTS

The aim of this research was to develop local potential based biology teaching material on subject matter of living thing diversity for grade VII Junior High Schools. The teaching material used in schoolwas only teaching material from the central education office. Local examples in Gorontalo Province were not available. This resulted in the learners did not recognize the local potential that exists in the area. Application of curriculum requires the utilization of local potential as a learning resource through teaching materials, student worksheets, and media. It was important to develop a learning book by using local examples exist in the environment with which student can learn the concept of biology. The method used was the teaching materialdevelopment, with a 4-D model. Data collection instrumentswere the need analysis questionnaire for teachersand the feasibility assessment questionnaire of instructional material draft for experts and validators of biology teacherpractitioners, and the student questionnaire. The learning bookproduced is very feasible to use for learning. The validation includeslearning bookvalidation test by material experts, instructional media experts and linguists. From this research resulted the teaching materials on the biodiversity material of living things to add examples of the diversity of animals and plants that are local potential, along with the problems and efforts to overcome them. Keywords: development, instructional material, local potential, diversity